View full sizeFresh strawberries were available during the 24th Baldwin County Strawberry Festival in Loxley. (Press-Register)

Pints of strawberries needed

I was really disappointed at the Loxley Strawberry Festival. I went there in hopes of finding some fresh strawberries but only two booths had them. The first made juice and the second had whole berries but only sold them by the flat, which is 12 pints, or half-flats at six pints. That’s quite a bit of strawberries for a person or family to eat before they go bad. Why can’t someone just sell individual pints?

Traffic device is working

A European roundabout in Daphne? I never thought it would work. The Pollard Road/Whispering Pines roundabout is amazing. Thank you for being progressive.

Time to fill top spot

This is about the county administrator position in Baldwin County. I’d like to know when the commission is going to step up and appoint a county administrator. Are they afraid to appoint (Interim Acting County Administrator) David Brewer, that he’s not doing a good job? Or do they not want to appoint David because he’s a paid employee now and he’s harder to let go? I’d like the commission to start making the appointment soon. Taxpayers pay for that position and I think they need to take it under hand.

Gas prices nothing new

For the person talking about the gas and Obama: You didn’t say anything when gas was up high when Bush was in office. Y’all try to blame everything on Obama but Bush started it.

Comparing teeth, titles

Yesterday while shopping at our local Walmart, this truism came to mind. If you celebrate more national championships than you have teeth, you must be a fan of the Crimson Tide.

Keep funding intact

The planned cuts to special education are ridiculous. If our principals and supervisors and school board members would spend some time in these special education classrooms, and if they really cared what was going on, or more specifically, what is not going on, they would not allow such cuts to happen without putting up a good fight and going to our Legislature, letting them know that 5 percent is devastating to special education. We can’t let this happen.

Pictures tell the story?

It seems photographers always take pictures of the largest, most overweight people in the front of their photographs. Maybe that’s all they had to photograph in south Alabama. We’ve got them in north Alabama but they seem to move them to the back of the crowd.

Gas cheaper in Mobile

I was in Mobile this week and I saw several gas stations selling regular unleaded for $3.55 a gallon. That’s 14 cents a gallon cheaper than in Fairhope and Daphne. Why are we getting ripped off over here? Isn’t that price gouging?

Fix managers, not the law

To the non-educators who think they know what’s broken in the tenure law, let me enlighten you. It’s not the law but the apathetic attitude of school administrators. They are the real reason teachers receive tenure. They have three long years to make them good or let them go. Let’s put the blame where it belongs and demand more administrative oversight. While you’re at it, superintendents, you need to get rid of these weak principals who don’t demand the best out of their teachers.

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